Unity Party of South Ossetia

The Unity Party is a conservative political party in South Ossetia which was founded in 2003 by Eduard Kokoity. The party was modeled after and closely linked to the United Russia party, with which it signed an inter-party cooperation agreement, and it supported social conservatism. It won the 2004 and 2009 parliamentary elections, and Kokoity served as President from 2001 to 2011, but it left Parliament in 2014 due to the rise of United Ossetia.